Day 2 – You Are Beautiful

Standing on the train platform today during my morning commute, seconds before the train came roaring to a halt in front of me, I glanced at the big green box to my left to find a shiny sticker telling the world, “you are beautiful.” I snapped the photo just in time.

Using an article in the Tribune about last weekend’s Pride Parade, I thought I would try my hand at the first draft of an almost-kinda-sorta-not-strictly erasure poem (moved a word here or there, changed a verb tense):